用于使用matplotlib.pyplot在python中进行绘图的线型功能

Question

I'm trying to scatter or plot 2 sets of arrays using numpy and matplotlib. Everything is ok with the code except when I try to have lines instead of dots in my plot The plot is ok when I use :

from numpy import *
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
positions=open('test.txt','r')

lines=positions.readlines()

for i in range(0,len(lines)):
    line=lines[i] 
    values=line.split("     ")

    x_val = [float(values[0])]
    y_val = [float(values[1])]
   # plt.scatter(x_val,y_val)
    #Or
    plt.plot(x_val,y_val,'ro')
    plt.title(' Data')
    plt.xlabel('x ')
    plt.ylabel('y')
    plt.show()

positions.close()

But when I replace plt.plot(x_val,y_val,'ro') with plt.plot(x_val,y_val,'r') , or plt.plot(x_val,y_val,'-') What I get is merely a blank page! I have no idea what the problem is, because I tried it with many many different options and yet the only option which works properly is having 'o'.

Answer 1

The reason that you see no lines when you ask for a plot without setting the markers is because you are plotting each (x,y) point individually, which can have a point position, but would create a line of length zero.

If instead of plotting each point immediately upon reading it, you put those values into an array, and called the plot function just once, you could also show a line:

x_vals = []
y_vals = []

for i in range(0,len(lines)):
    line=lines[i] 
    values=line.split("     ")

    x_vals.append(float(values[0]))
    y_vals.append(float(values[1]))

plt.plot(x_vals, y_vals,'ro-')

And you could still use the data in a scatter plot if required.